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“As long as justice is postponed we always stand on the verge of these darker nights of social disruption”...so said Martin Luther King Jr. in a speech on March 14, 1968, just three weeks before he was assassinated.

Monday, 11 December 2017

NEWS

Lawfare (blog)

On Friday, CNN erroneously reported that the Trump campaign had access to hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee before Wikileaks published them online, the Post reports. CNN alleged that Trump's campaign received an email related to the yet-unpublished documents on Sept.

The Hill

And of course, we had the CNN exclusive on Friday that was arguably as damaging to the network as the Ross report was to ABC. The original report stated Donald Trump Jr. and other Trump campaign officials had received WikiLeaks documents and an encryption key 10 days before anyone else.

The Hill

On Friday, CNN reported that Trump's son, Donald Trump, Jr., had received access to hacked Democratic emails from Wikileaks more than a week before they were leaked to the public – an allegation that NBC and CBS claimed to confirm and that was presented as direct evidence of collusion with ...

93.1 WIBC Indianapolis (blog)

On Friday, CNN corrected an erroneous report that Donald Trump Jr. had received advance notice from WikiLeaks about a batch of hacked documents that it planned to release during last year's presidential campaign. In reality, the email to Trump Jr. was sent a day after the documents were made ...

Fox News Insider

Media reporter Joe Concha said on Monday that the source or sources who misled news organizations for a story on Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks should be exposed. Concha, who writes for The Hill, said the past week has been the worst "in modern times" for the U.S. political media. He called out a ...

Channel 4 News

Previous winners include Chelsea Manning, the former US soldier jailed for espionage after giving classified documents to Wikileaks. We're not really in a position to say whether winning a Sean MacBride Peace Prize is or should be considered a major achievement: it's a matter of opinion. But we can ...

Newsweek

Bannon, too, was a link to data firm Cambridge Analytica, which was found to be in contact with allegedly Kremlin-tied leak site WikiLeaks. However, Bannon also panned Trump's decision to fire Comey, which led to Mueller's appointment in May. Both firings and the alleged contacts with Russia are ...

Independent Journal Review

CNN has been in damage control mode since it's report on Donald Trump Jr. and his collusion with WikiLeaksduring the 2016 campaign proved to be false. CNN originally reported Trump Jr. and others “received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address for hacked ...

The Inquisitr

Cyber-attackers stole thousands of private DNC emails that were later posted online and on the document-dumping site Wikileaks. United States intelligence agencies have long believed that the Russian state security services, acting on orders from President Vladimir Putin himself, were behind the ...

TheTower.org

WikiLeaks documents revealed that senior officials from Israel and Bahrain have spoken in recent years, including a 2007 meeting between then-foreign minister Tzipi Livni and Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa in New York. The Gulf kingdom also named Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo as the ...

CBS St. Louis

Friday, December 8th, CNN reported that an e-mail sent to the Trump campaign leaking information from the DNC Wikileaks. They had to correct a date in their story and admit the information was sent to them after the documents were made open to the pubic, not before. The article now leads with, ...

National Review

Just how did two of CNN's Manu Raju's sources separately make the exact same mistake when describing a September 2016 e-mail from WikiLeaks to the Trump campaign? CNN Public Relations says “the network does not believe that the sources intended to deceive the reporters.” Have they checked ...

PJ Media

Wasn't this the implication of CNN's humiliating non-retraction retraction of a story claiming Don Trump Jr. got a "heads up" from Wikileaks about a document dump that quickly turned out to not be a heads up at all? And actually, they aren't isolated incidents, they are repeated instances of the RUSSIANS ...

Columbia Journalism Review

On Friday, CNN, CBS, and MSNBC all reported on an email that seemed to prove the Trump campaign had advanced notice about emails hacked by Wikileaks. The story soon fell apart, however, because the email in question was sent 10 days after CNN and others reported, meaning it appeared in ...

The Daily Caller

His reaction is odd given Democrats' vocal abhorrence of the breach of the DNC resulting in the publication of its emails by Wikileaks, which Democrats have called an “assault on our democracy.” Early signs of that breach were treated casually by the DNC when first detected: A tech manager said he ...

Indianapolis Star

13, 2017: Donald Trump Jr. makes public several messages he exchanged during the 2016 campaign with WikiLeaks around the time it was publishing leaked and secret material from Democrats. Those messages were exchanged in the fall of 2016, leading up to Trump's eldest son tweeting out a link ...

Politico

And during the campaign, Bannon was the one who offered the introduction to data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica, whose CEO has since acknowledged trying to coordinate with WikiLeaks on the release of emails from Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state. Yet Bannon hasn't faced anywhere ...

The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com

Al Jazeera cited documents released by WikiLeaks in 2011 which highlighted Bahrain's contacts with Israel “at the intelligence/security level” and indicated that the Gulf country was “willing to move forward in other areas.” The Qatar-funded channel also recalled a statement by Prime Minister Benjamin ...